Contracts Manager

Contracts Manager

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Contracts & Risk Manager to join our Global Logistics Contracts & Risk Team. The role involves drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and transforming contracts for IT Spare Parts sourcing and support, across multiple regions. The successful candidate will be a qualified lawyer with strong expertise in spares, supply chain contracting and a proven ability to drive contract lifecycle management (CLM) transformation.

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you

What you will do:

Contracts & Risk Management

• Drive end-to-end contracts management including contract review, drafting, redlining, negotiation and execution with leading global IT spare parts, semiconductor, electronics and hardware suppliers.
• Lead negotiations from the Contracts team to resolve contractual and commercial issues by leveraging legal, sourcing, operational and financial knowledge.
• Influence and support Sourcing Managers and business stakeholders in procurement decisions by supplementing legal and contractual perspectives along with industry-prevalent practices in IT spare parts and technology supplier contracting.
• Draft, review and negotiate complex commercial agreements including:

• Master Supply Agreements (MSA), Global Framework Agreements, Technology Procurement Agreements, Hardware Supply Agreements, Supplier & Vendor Agreements, Support & Maintenance Agreements, Warranty Agreements, SaaS / Cloud / Licensing Agreements, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Agreements, Statements of Work (SOW), Outsourcing & Managed Services Agreements

  
  
  
• Identify critical contractual, commercial, operational and regulatory risks in supplier contracts and provide practical mitigation strategies and resolution approaches.
• Provide timely escalation of contractual risks, supplier non-compliance issues and commercial disputes to leadership and stakeholders.
• Drive obligations assessment and contract governance for assigned suppliers to improve supplier performance, ensure contractual compliance and mitigate commercial and operational risks.
• Support cross-functional collaboration with sourcing, procurement, supply chain, engineering, operations, finance, compliance and legal teams for contract structuring and execution.

Transformation & Automation

• Support the transformation of Contracts Management into a best-in-class Centre of Excellence by driving: Contract standardization, Process optimization, Contract governance improvements, Automation initiatives, CLM implementation and adoption,
• Contribute towards implementation and enhancement of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools and digital contracting processes.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in contracting workflows, risk management and supplier governance processes.

Technical Requirements

• Well versed with MS Office tools.
• Experience working with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools including implementation, configuration support or business adoption.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled contracting tools and digital contracting platforms preferred.

Other Requirements

• Strong understanding of contractual, commercial and operational risks associated with:
• IT spare parts sourcing, Technology procurement, Global supplier engagements
• Good understanding of prevalent market practices in technology procurement and IT spare parts contracting.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Advanced written, verbal and presentation skills with mastery in English drafting.
• Ability to work with global stakeholders and suppliers across multiple jurisdictions and time zones.
• Demonstrated experience of working closely with sourcing, procurement, business and operations teams to drive contract structuring, negotiations and contract closures.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and risk assessment capabilities.

What you need to bring:

Primary Qualification

• LL.B from a reputed university
• LL.M preferred

Experience

• 10–12 years of post-qualification experience working in an In-House Legal or Contracts Management team supporting global supplier / procurement contracts.
• Strong experience in:

• ODM, OEM Agreements, IT Spare Parts Contracts, Technology Procurement Contracts, Semiconductor / Electronics Supply Chain Contracts, Global Sourcing & Supplier Agreements, Hardware / Infrastructure / Data Center procurement contracting

  
  
  
• Experience handling contracts related to IT spare parts and technology commodities such as: SSD / HDD, GPU, CPU, Memory / RAM, Servers & Storage Components, Networking Hardware, Electronic Components, Data Center Hardware

• PCB / PCBA Components, Proven ability as a subject matter expert in one or more contracts functional areas, combined with significant experience providing contracts support for complex global supplier engagements across multiple business units.

  
  
  

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Complex Project Management, Contract Management, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Experience Strategy, Data Science, Design Thinking, Empathy, Engineering Product Development, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Global Sourcing, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Manufacturing Supply Chain, Negotiation {+ 4 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Supply Chain & Operations

Job Level:

Master

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